PARIS (AP) — The night the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron first flew over Paris, its designer Mathieu Lehanneur held his breath: Nothing could go wrong. The balloon, lit by the Olympic torch ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight the Mathieu Lehanneur-designed boiler in Paris on Friday. It looked as if ...

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris Games, but that’s not a fire in the cauldron. Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the ...

Then, the flame will travel across French territory to finish in Paris on July 26 and light the cauldron, always an iconic moment of every Olympic Game. Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left ...

While Antoine Arnault of LVMH may insist that "financial benefits have never been a goal of this partnership," NBC’s ...

Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost ...

Why flying the Paris Olympics cauldron balloon was a Hail Mary For the first time in the history of the Games, the cauldron—a 23-foot-diameter ring of fire supported by a giant air balloon ...

The Olympic cauldron for the 2024 Paris Olympics is a floating hot-air balloon-style structure that pays tribute to France's history of innovation in air travel. The cauldron rests on the ground ...

Japan's Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron in Tokyo three years ago but she has it all to prove in Paris as she continues ...

Usain Bolt was the last man to complete the 100/200m sweep, winning gold in both sprint events at three consecutive Olympics (Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016). Could Noah Lyles be the next athlete ...

“I love Paris, and I’m so happy to be back ... Emmanuel Macron and IOC President Thomas Bach gave remarks. The Olympic cauldron was also officially lit at the Louvre after a number of ...